Canada Plastics Pact Welcomes Two New Partners to Advance a Circular Economy for Plastics
OTTAWA, March 28, 2025 – The Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) is pleased to welcome Machinex and Seawise Innovative Packaging to its expanding network of Partners in Q1 of 2025.
Machinex, headquartered in Plessisville, Quebec, is known globally for its expertise in designing cutting-edge sorting systems for the waste and recycling sector.
With advanced technologies spanning optics, robotics, mechanics, and artificial intelligence, Machinex develops and manufactures systems tailored to optimize sorting processes. Their team has installed hundreds of turnkey solutions in collaboration with waste management leaders across Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Seawise is shaking up seafood packaging by transitioning away from Styrofoam (Expanded Polystyrene – EPS) for fully recyclable, circular solutions. With deep roots in the industry, they’re bringing smart, sustainable alternatives to cold-chain packaging—helping move the seafood market to reducing its plastic footprint.
They offer a fully recyclable alternative to EPS for seafood, using post-consumer recycled materials with reliable end-of-life infrastructure to reduce single-use plastic packaging and advance a circular economy.
“The strength of the Canada Plastics Pact lies in its diverse network of experts across the plastics ecosystem, all working together to drive tangible solutions,” said Cher Mereweather, Managing Director of the CPP. “That’s why we’re so excited to have Machinex and Seawise Innovative Packaging join us.”
Addressing plastic waste is a wicked problem that demands innovative and bold solutions. To make real progress, we must enhance our understanding of how plastics flow in Canada, eliminate the plastics that are unnecessary, and design and innovate the ones we do need, so that only the right plastics are in the economy.
These complex challenges—spanning economic, environmental, and social impacts—cannot be addressed in isolation. It’s only through collaboration across businesses, organizations, and governments that we’ll make tangible progress towards a circular economy for plastics.
The CPP – by design – has a diversified partnership that represents the broad spectrum of interests, resources, and areas of expertise needed to overcome this complexity. The CPP is advancing real progress to get there—as a whole system. Join the Canada Plastics Pact in shaping the future of plastics in Canada.
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About the Canada Plastics Pact
The Canada Plastics Pact is made up of a diverse mix of leading organizations and governments from across Canada’s plastics value chain who are committed to eliminating plastic waste and pollution, while advancing a circular economy for plastics.
By fostering innovation, collaboration and collective action, we are developing, testing and scaling solutions to the systemic barriers so that the right plastics remain in the economy while keeping all plastics out of people, animals and nature.
CPP is a Generate Canada Solution Space, advancing a shared vision for a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits.
Canada Plastics Pact is also an active participant in the Plastics Pact Network, convened by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP).
The Canada Plastics Pact is a member of the